David Stringer

David Stringer has served as a parish priest in a number of congregations and denominations.  His background includes teaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, until he became a Presbyterian clergy, where he served several congregations as a pastor.  He journeyed on into the Episcopal Church, where he spent the last twenty years as priest.  He taught as an Adjunct Professor on the faculty at the Episcopal Seminary in Austin, as well.

David has lectured widely, in Canada, in Bangor, Wales, and in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as across the United States.  He is a retreat master, conference leader, and seminar leader.  Currently, David has recently taken early retirement to further his publications of both his theological writings, as well as his poetry.  He is a regular retreat teacher and leader in the Wisdom School Tradition.  He is working on publishing a series of teachings called Another View, which are a foundational work in cultivating new ways of seeking a lost wisdom in the more traditional concepts of Christianity.  David is steeped in the Desert Tradition of Christianity as a way of inviting people into a deeper seeing.

David has taught extensively, as well, on the Sacred Traditions of the World, especially Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Sufism. He is interested in tracing the common themes across these traditions that correspond to and are natural to Christian experience and faith.  He is studied in the Patristic Tradition (Church Father’s and Mother’s) of the first eight centuries of Christianity, and finds there our deep roots that have, as he believes, by and large been forgotten or driven underground. 

David often will teach with his wife of forty years, DaAnna, a gifted artist and thinker.  She has interest in Mandala’s as an instrument of understanding the inner life, and is a consultant with her own firm, Corporate Listener.  Her interest in sculpting (heads, as she says), are confronting and provocative, providing an iconic means of experiencing the mystery of each being she sculpts.  She has sculpts of John the Baptist, Esther, Lao Tzu, among others.